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Men are like steel; both are worthless when they loose their temper.

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

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The way to find out if you love someone or not, is by talking to them. The more you talk to them the more you either hate them or love them.

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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!

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Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.

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The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

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Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

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Greatness, no matter how brief, stays with a man.

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Treat all others with the respect they deserve, not with the respect you intend to gain.

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